September 29th, 1997 - I walked in the door of a Microsoft office build named “Hilltop” in Las Colinas (Irving), Tx as a full time employee. My original badge Since then, I have been fortunate enough to have contributed a very small part in helping build...

We are keeping the pedal to the metal with our IT Camps!! Industry experts estimate that over 70% of businesses now have more than one virtualization platform in their IT environment. IT pros who are fluent in several platforms have a considerable edge...

In today’s virtualized computing world where we are eeking out every bit of performance and optimization that we can to save money and increase efficiency, one of the areas that IT is focusing on is how to deploy servers as quickly as possible. Whether...

My co-worker – Yung Chou – brings us Part 1 of a 2 Part blog post on using PKI in an enterprise networking environment. Here is an excerpt of his article - PKI is heavily employed in cloud computing for encrypting data and securing transactions. While...

If you are in the San Francisco Bay area this Friday (or next month!) next month, check out TechDays! The IT Professional community in San Francisco is sponsoring a two day event on all of the new Hyper-V features found in Server 2012R2. Register for...

Recently announced by Susie Adams, chief technology officer for Microsoft Federal on the Official Microsoft Blog …. Starting Monday, it will be easier for government organizations to realize the benefits of secure cloud computing. Microsoft received notice...

A little less than 24 hours ago, I performed an in-place upgrade of my all purpose server from Windows Server 2008 R2 to Windows Server 2012 R2 . It went surprisingly well and I had no issues with it for the remainder of the day. This morning I checked...

I have been running Windows Server 2008 R2 as my primary production server platform since it’s release. With the impending release of Windows Server 2012, I thought it would be a good time to go ahead and update the home server network to the latest and...

We are keeping the pedal to the metal with our IT Camps!! Industry experts estimate that over 70% of businesses now have more than one virtualization platform in their IT environment. IT pros who are fluent in several platforms have a considerable edge...

Keith Mayer brings us the next post in out VMware of Microsoft virtualization series. here is an excerpt - When evaluating public and hybrid cloud services, carefully inspecting a cloud-provider’s Service Level Agreement (SLA) is an important step in...

You can play around with and test the features I will be discussing in this series by download the Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview here - Have you ever lost a laptop or had a PC stolen? I have. About a year ago, I had a laptop...

You can play around with and test the features I will be discussing in this series by download the Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview here - Networks. Whether wired or wireless, we have to have them to connect all of the various pieces of our...

With the general availability release of Windows Server 2012 R2 only 3 weeks away now, I am starting up a series of blog posts to introduce you to some of the new features and technologies you will have access to. Technically you have access to...

Network Virtualization, and Software-Defined Networking (SDN) at-large, have been getting a lot of attention recently. After reviewing the network traffic patterns in heavily virtualized datacenters, many IT Pros are beginning to realize that a...

Join a Microsoft Developer Camp and learn the critical skills that modern developers need to know. Take part in these hands-on workshops and get trained in the latest Microsoft development tools and technologies. Discover the latest Windows Azure development...

Now is the time to gets some hands on experience working with Windows Server 2012 R2 ! There has been so much new stuff announced lately for Windows Server 2012, that I encourage IT Pros to work with the new features before Server 2012 is released...

For years Microsoft and Oracle have helped customers address enterprise technology needs, and during those years I’ve had the opportunity to personally partner with, compete with, and admire Oracle as an industry leader. Certainly when you think of enterprise...

Keith Mayer delivers today's post in our VMware or Microsoft series. Keith titled his post as “at-a-glance” but what he is really doing is a great, in depth comparison of features and technologies between vSphere 5.5 and Windows Server 2012. Here is an...

Kevin Remde, my friend and peer from the Central DPE Region brings us the next post in our series. Here is an excerpt…. Disclaimer: facts and figures in this article are based on the state of the technology as it exists at the date of its publication...

Today’s post comes to us courtesy of an old friend and coworker, who is still a friend but who now works for Veeam . I’m talking about none-other than Chris Henley . Thank you, Chris, for this excellent write-up on backing up virtual environments...

Have you ever wondered what a datacenter looks like? Maybe you saw a datacenter 5 years ago. I can tell you first hand a lot has changed in datacenter construction and implementation in the last 5 years. There are a couple of great videos on YouTube...

Tommy Patterson delivers the next post in our VMware OR Microsoft Series – Here is an excerpt…. VMware jumped in the VDI ring many years ago mainly through some acquisitions, and for the first few years struggled to gain momentum against Citrix. ...

Here is a little snapshot of what we will be doing at the IT Camps in Bellevue and Portland (as well as other cities around the US). Hands-on Lab: Build a SharePoint Dev/Test Farm in the Cloud using Windows Azure Infrastructure Services · Get Started...